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Thursday, March 28, 2013

ANASTASIA RECEIVES A SUNSHINE AWARD!

The
Sunshine Award is a lovely sunny flower that bloggers give to other “bloggers
who positively and creatively inspire others in the blogosphere.”

The
other day Kath Marsh, who writes the Letters from Earth blog, bestowed a
Sunshine Award on Killer Crafts & Crafty Killers. Thanks so much, Kath!

As
with most awards, the Sunshine Award comes with a few simple rules:

(1)
Thank the person who gave you the award in your blog post.

(2)
Do the Q&A below

(3)
Pass on the award to 10-12 deserving and inspiring bloggers, inform them and
link to their blogs.

Here
are my answers to the questions:

Favorite
Color: Black (a pear-shaped, middle-aged girl’s best friend)

Favorite
Animal: Ralph, the Shakespeare quoting parrot

Favorite
Number: Seventeen. Don’t ask me why. For some reason seventeen always comes to
mind first, like when I’m juggling seventeen things at once, which I do
constantly.

Favorite
Non-alcoholic Drink: Coffee, coffee, and more coffee. Did I mention coffee?

Facebook
or Twitter: Who has time for either? I certainly don’t. Thanks to a certain sadistic
author, I’m too busy trying to dig my way out of the debt-ridden back-story
she created for me.

Your
Passion: Finding ways to get out of the messes that sadistic author writes me
into. (Think Lois will kill me when she reads this? No way! She’d have to come up
with a brand new series.)

Giving
or Getting Presents: Giving. Shopping for others is so much more fun than
shopping for myself. At least it used to be, back before author Lois Winston
yanked me out of my comfortable middle-class life.

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SCRAPBOOK OF MURDER

An Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery, Book 6

SLEUTHING WOMEN II: 10 MYSTERY NOVELLAS

LITERALLY DEAD: an Empty Nest Mystery, Book 2

SLEUTHING WOMEN: 10 FIRST-IN-SERIES MYSTERIES

A collection of 10 full-length mysteries featuring murder and assorted mayhem, each the first book in an established multi-book series

A STITCH TO DIE FOR

Book 5 in the Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery series

MOM SQUAD: a Shadow Ops Novella

WE'D RATHER BE WRITING

BAKE, LOVE, WRITE

DEFINITELY DEAD

An Empty Nest Mystery, Book 1

CRAFTY CRIMES

a Trio of Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mini-Mysteries

PATCHWORK PERIL

An Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mini-Mystery

DECOUPAGE CAN BE DEADLY

MOSAIC MAYHEM

An Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mini-Mystery

REVENGE OF THE CRAFTY CORPSE

CREWEL INTENTIONS

an Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mini-Mystery

DEATH BY KILLER MOP DOLL

ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY GLUE GUN

THE ANASTASIA POLLACK CRAFTING MYSTERIES

Read about Anastasia in the Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery seriesby Lois Winston. Assault With a Deadly Glue Gun, the first book in the series, received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist. Kirkus Reviews called it "North Jersey's more mature answer to Stephanie Plum." Assault With a Deadly Glue Gunwas also a Book of the Year Award nominee from ForeWord Reviews, a Daphne du Maurier Award finalist, and a Readers Choice Award nominee from the Salt Lake City Library System. Other books in the series include Death by Killer Mop Doll, Revenge of the Crafty Corpse, Decoupage Can Be Deadly, A Stitch to Die For, and Scrapbook of Murder, plus three mini-mysteries: Crewel Intentions,Mosaic Mayhem, and Patchwork Peril. Look for more of Anastasia's adventures coming in the future.

About Me

I'm the crafts editor at American Woman magazine; the single parent of two teenage boys and a Shakespeare quoting parrot; caretaker to a semi-invalid, communist mother-in-law from Hell and her demon dog; daughter to a multi-married descendant of the Czars (supposedly); reluctant cat-sitter to Mama's extremely corpulent white Persian cat; a born Jersey girl; and star of my own amateur sleuth mystery series.